20 October,2016 10:02 AM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
Virender Sehwag has always been the 'king of swag', both and off the cricket field. And the way former India opener celebrated his birthday on Twitter proved that he is 'Thalaivar' on the micro-blogging site
'Birthday boy' Virender Sehwag shows why he's 'The Rajni of Twitter'
Virender Sehwag celebrated his birthday on Twitter with the same aplomb that he used to show while playing. File Pic/AFP
Virender Sehwag has always been the 'king of swag' -- on and off the cricket field. The former explosive India opener and current 'Nawab of Twitter' has carried that attitude to the micro-blogging site and has been ruling it with his one-liners, sarcastic comments and witty birthday wishes with his indomitable style.
Viru celebrated his 38th birthday on Thursday and, well, continued to entertain his Twitter fandom even on this day.
He, it seems, believes in the concept of return gifts and these were his to some of his ex-colleagues, celeb fans, current cricketers and opponents. And boy, oh boy, were they funny.
To India opener Shikhar Dhawan
For Suresh Raina
For fashion photographer Atul Kasbekar
For former India batsman Hemang Badani
For Amit Bhandari
For leggie Yazvendra Chahal
For Aussie legend Shane Warne
Always having tried to entertain his fans, the 'Sultan of Multan' decided to mark his birthday on Thursday by holding a Q&A session with people on social media. "You can ask your questions to me using #AskSehwag . Will try and answer as many as possible and then will do #ViruKiCommentary on Periscope," he posted.
And some of the replies he had for his fans will leave you in splits.
He said Shoaib Akhtar and Piers Morgan were his favourite dishes.
He said he was happiest to see any Pakistani bowler
He revealed that when he was on 294 against Pakistan, he was waiting for Saqlain Mushtaq to come on so he could hit him for a six.
This one is a classic: He loves food cooked by his mother in the afternoon and by his wife in the night.
But he wasn't done. How could the man who has made a mark for himself on Twitter with his sense of humour and love for birthday wishes not celebrate his own.
And here's the best for the last. He wished himself on his birthday and asked everyone else to sing along to "Happy birthday to me.
Now, that's 'coolness quotient' mutliplied by, how about, infinity.
This got one of his fans to call him "Rajinikanth of Twitter".
And it seems approriate, since he rules the micro-blogging site. And this much swag and style does make him the 'Rajni of Twitter'.
